Telegram from Ambassador Warren Austin to Secretary of State Dean Acheson

I-23,1 NLT (KOREA/SD) 383 TELEGRAM Department of State ACTION COPY TELEGRAPH BRANCH 26-M TOB SECRET Action Control: 8535 709 Rec't: December 18, 1950 UNA : New York 7:30 p.m. TO: Secretary of State SS NATIONS, G NO: DELGA 448, December 18, 6:35 p.m. EUR NEA DECLASSIFIED 13/27/20 FE PRIORITY. DCR Authority FRUS 1950 VOL. VII Re Korea: 17.1567-1870 By DEB NLT Date 2-26-85 Cease-fire subcommittee, Entezam, Rau and Pearson, invited Gross to meet with them Sunday evening, December 17. Pre- sent also at meeting which lasted over two and a half hours was Jebb. Meeting was opened by Rau. He said that although the com- mittee had not any official contacts with Wu, he had had informal discussions with him. Wu privately reiterated the PRC feeling that the 13-power Asian resolution re cease- fire is a trap in the sense that Communists are called upon to cease hostilities without any concrete assurances that there will subsequently be broad negotiations with them on Far East problems. He added that Wu had asked Rau to keep trying, that the Communists want peace and that while he must return to Peiping on December 19, a mission could al- ways return. Gross commented that Wu's public utterances followed entirely the Malik approach and that if the Com- munists wanted to settle these problems they could do so. Gross wanted the record clear that the Communists have from the beginning singled out the US for vituperation and that this tactic should be seen for what it is. Rau continued that in the light of his contacts with Wu and after conferring with the other members of the subcommittee, they had decided that thé best way to meet what might be a suspicious, but nevertheless real fear of entrapment would be by passing immediately the second Asian resolution call- ing for the representatives of governments not named in the resolution to make recommendations for the peaceful settle- ment of existing issues. During the ensuing discussion, which ended with a rejection of this idea and the strong opposition to it by Gross, the following points were covered: (A) Calling upon the representatives of governments to mee as soon as possible would mean as soon as possible after a cease-fire were (over) SOB PERMANENT RECORD COPY This copy must be returned to DC/R central files with notation of action taken 7